Go forward Quotes

“A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: “I lie in the shadow of St. Paul’s.”

“The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.”

“Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.”

“To put it simply: the Holy Spirit bothers us. Because he moves us, he makes us walk, he pushes the Church to go forward. And we are like Peter at the Transfiguration: 'Ah, how wonderful it is to be here like this, all together!' ... But don't bother us. We want the Holy Spirit to doze off ... we want to domesticate the Holy Spirit. And that's no good. because he is God, he is that wind which comes and goes and you don't know where. He is the power of God, he is the one who gives us consolation and strength to move forward. But: to move forward! And this bothers us. It's so much nicer to be comfortable.”

“The Revenge and the Vengeance makes you to go forward and forward to do your work... This which was taken, you should take it from them.”

“It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.”

“Go forward and fulfil your dream.”

“A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.”

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”